The first steel was cut last week at Meyer Werft's shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, for the construction of 'Norwegian Breakaway', the first of two new ships for Norwegian Cruise Line, set for delivery in April 2013.
The Breakaway class ships, 'Norwegian Breakaway' and 'Norwegian Getaway', will each be 144,017 tons and will have approximately 4,000 passenger berths. They are the largest passenger cruise ships to be built in Germany.
'Norwegian Breakaway' is scheduled to enter operations in April 2013, with 'Norwegian Getaway' to follow in April 2014. The first plate of steel took four minutes to cut by a plasma torch, and will become a supporting part of the double bottom in the middle of the new ship.
